thrasonical

English

Etymology

From Latin Thrasō, Thrason-, the name of a boastful soldier in the play Eunuchus by Terence. The name is derived from Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús, “bold, audacious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹəˈsɒnɪkəl/

Adjective

thrasonical (comparative more thrasonical, superlative most thrasonical)

1. Boastful, bragging, vainglorious.
   • 1556, Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, quoted by John Fox in Acts & Monuments:

     The Sorbonicall clamours (which at Paris I haue ſene in time paſt whē poperie moſt raigned) might be worthily thought in compariſon of thys traſonicall oſtentation to haue had much modeſtie.

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.

   • 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:

     In amongst his general thrasonical ranting and ravings concerning his own merits, Skogan had promised the company that tomorrow the world would know how good his verses were – when he read aloud at the court gate some poem which he had written in honour of the birthday of Thomas, Duke of Clarence.

Derived terms

• thrasonically